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Mysterious icon change in the Dock

Started byJohn Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk>
First post2025-08-23 08:57 +0000
Last post2025-08-25 08:19 +0100
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  Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-23 08:57 +0000
    Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-23 09:12 +0000
      Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-23 09:39 +0000
        Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-23 10:56 +0000
          Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-23 16:07 +0000
            Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Andy H <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2025-08-24 07:44 +0000
              Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-24 07:49 +0000
              Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 08:17 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2025-08-25 12:16 +0100
                  Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Andy H <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2025-08-25 13:28 +0000
                  Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-08-25 17:51 +0200
                  Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-26 07:30 +0000
                    Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-26 07:56 +0000
                    Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock "David B." <DavidB.@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-08-26 15:30 +0100
          Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-23 16:41 +0000
            Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid (Alan B) - 2025-08-23 18:13 +0100
            Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-08-23 18:16 +0100
              Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 07:47 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Andy H <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2025-08-24 08:04 +0000
                  Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 08:22 +0000
                    Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Andy H <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2025-08-24 10:47 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 08:09 +0000
                  Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-24 08:13 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 09:14 +0100
                  Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 08:36 +0000
                    Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-24 11:36 +0000
                      Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2025-08-24 20:00 +0000
                        Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-24 20:14 +0000
                          Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2025-08-24 20:26 +0000
                            Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-25 07:54 +0000
                              Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2025-08-25 13:14 +0000
                    Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 13:55 +0100
                      Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 16:21 +0000
                        Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-08-25 08:19 +0100

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#181715

FromAndy H <thewildrover@icloud.com>
Date2025-08-24 10:47 +0000
Message-ID<108eqjc$2ofkh$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#181712
John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2025 at 09:04:32 BST, "Andy H" <thewildrover@icloud.com> wrote:

>> 
>> I’ve found it now. You need to change the display option from Stack to
>> Folder.
> 
> Bingo! I have done so and the icon has gone.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Old John..

Yay, excellent.

HTH :-)

-- 
Andy H

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#181708

FromJohn Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk>
Date2025-08-24 08:09 +0000
Message-ID<108ehbq$2m44p$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#181704
On 24 Aug 2025 at 08:47:55 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 23 Aug 2025 at 18:16:15 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 23/08/2025 17:41, John Hill wrote:
>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 11:56:46 BST, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 09:57:55 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The Applications icon in my Dock has been overlaid by a white square
>>>>>>> containing a red octagon bearing a white hand.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It looks like some kind of warning. But what does it signify?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What action do I need to take to clear it? I'd like it gone - it is unsightly,
>>>>>>> apart from anything else.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Is it showing the first app icon from your /Applications folder?
>>>>> 
>>>>> What you're describing looks like the AdBlock for Safari icon as shown
>>>>> in the App Store. Have you recently installed it?
>>>> 
>>>> Further investigation ...
>>>> 
>>>> If it is that, there is a setting to toggle 'Show Dock Icon' on or off.
>>> 
>>> I have asked AdBlock Support for help.
>> 
>> Hello again, Very Old John!  🙂
>> 
>> As you know, I'm not as clever as many of the other's reading here, but
>> I'd like to make a suggestion.
>> 
>> Simply remove the Applications Icon from the Dock, then you'll not be
>> ably to see the ugly icon currently sitting atop of it!
>> 
>> 
>> A 'right click' on the Icon should provide you with options.
>> 
>> Good luck!
>> 
>> PS. Can you post an image of what your "Applications App" looks like?
>>     I don't appear to have one in my macOS Ventura 13.7.8
> 
> https://share.icloud.com/photos/0634f--fWm6Mmc6eA-1DFy87g
> 
> The screenshot.It shows the Documents folder and the Downloads folder icons in
> their usual guise, the obscenely altered Applications folder, a parked Arc
> page and the Bin.
> 
> BTW I am running Sequoia 15.6.1 (24G90)
> 
> Alan, toggling the Show in Dock shows or removes a completely separate icon in
> the Dock.. It cannot be removed by normal methods, only by the toggle.
> 
> Returning to the offending icon, if I rename the app as X AdBock. the overlay
> disappears. I see only the normal Applications icon. I have no idea if it
> would work if renames.
> 
> I use Safari only rarely; Arc is my default browser. It runs AdBlock Plus
> (which I believe to be a completely different blocker) without all this
> nonsense. Maybe that is the answer?

No - it behaves exactly the same as AdBlock. Maybe this is a Safari thing,
then?

Frankly, I'd sooner put up with the adverts! As I said, I rarely use Safari on
the iMac anyway.
IOS and iPadOS are a completely different proposition. So I have binned both.

Old John.
-- 
Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est

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#181709

FromAlan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
Date2025-08-24 08:13 +0000
Message-ID<108ehje$2m502$1@notronniebarker.dont-email.me>
In reply to#181708
On 2025-08-24, John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Frankly, I'd sooner put up with the adverts! As I said, I rarely use Safari on
> the iMac anyway.
> IOS and iPadOS are a completely different proposition. So I have binned both.

You could always change the app's icon via its Get Info menu. Find or 
download a nice icon file, open it with, say, GC, select all and then 
copy. Next click on the icon shown in the app's Get Info window. Now 
paste in the icon you just copied and exit Get Info. You will probably 
need to remove the All Applications icon from the Dock and then put it 
back to complete the process.

-- 
Cheers, Alan

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#181710

From"David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk>
Date2025-08-24 09:14 +0100
Message-ID<mgvvvtFq4atU2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#181704
On 24/08/2025 08:47, John Hill wrote:
> On 23 Aug 2025 at 18:16:15 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 23/08/2025 17:41, John Hill wrote:
>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 11:56:46 BST, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 09:57:55 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Applications icon in my Dock has been overlaid by a white square
>>>>>>> containing a red octagon bearing a white hand.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It looks like some kind of warning. But what does it signify?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What action do I need to take to clear it? I'd like it gone - it is unsightly,
>>>>>>> apart from anything else.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it showing the first app icon from your /Applications folder?
>>>>>
>>>>> What you're describing looks like the AdBlock for Safari icon as shown
>>>>> in the App Store. Have you recently installed it?
>>>>
>>>> Further investigation ...
>>>>
>>>> If it is that, there is a setting to toggle 'Show Dock Icon' on or off.
>>>
>>> I have asked AdBlock Support for help.
>>
>> Hello again, Very Old John!  🙂
>>
>> As you know, I'm not as clever as many of the other's reading here, but
>> I'd like to make a suggestion.
>>
>> Simply remove the Applications Icon from the Dock, then you'll not be
>> ably to see the ugly icon currently sitting atop of it!
>>
>>
>> A 'right click' on the Icon should provide you with options.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> PS. Can you post an image of what your "Applications App" looks like?
>>      I don't appear to have one in my macOS Ventura 13.7.8
> 
> https://share.icloud.com/photos/0634f--fWm6Mmc6eA-1DFy87g
> 
> The screenshot.It shows the Documents folder and the Downloads folder icons in
> their usual guise, the obscenely altered Applications folder, a parked Arc
> page and the Bin.
> 
> BTW I am running Sequoia 15.6.1 (24G90)
[snip]

Thank you so very much for sharing that image, John. Much appreciated. 🙂

You may enjoy reviewing this conversation I have subsequently enjoyed 
with ChatGPT:-

https://chatgpt.com/share/68aac8e9-1be8-8013-bd11-69f9e41fa109

Perhaps you'd like to comment further?

-- 
David

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#181714

FromJohn Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk>
Date2025-08-24 08:36 +0000
Message-ID<108eius$2mgc6$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#181710
On 24 Aug 2025 at 09:14:53 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> On 24/08/2025 08:47, John Hill wrote:
>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 18:16:15 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 23/08/2025 17:41, John Hill wrote:
>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 11:56:46 BST, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 09:57:55 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The Applications icon in my Dock has been overlaid by a white square
>>>>>>>> containing a red octagon bearing a white hand.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> It looks like some kind of warning. But what does it signify?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> What action do I need to take to clear it? I'd like it gone - it is unsightly,
>>>>>>>> apart from anything else.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is it showing the first app icon from your /Applications folder?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What you're describing looks like the AdBlock for Safari icon as shown
>>>>>> in the App Store. Have you recently installed it?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Further investigation ...
>>>>> 
>>>>> If it is that, there is a setting to toggle 'Show Dock Icon' on or off.
>>>> 
>>>> I have asked AdBlock Support for help.
>>> 
>>> Hello again, Very Old John!  🙂
>>> 
>>> As you know, I'm not as clever as many of the other's reading here, but
>>> I'd like to make a suggestion.
>>> 
>>> Simply remove the Applications Icon from the Dock, then you'll not be
>>> ably to see the ugly icon currently sitting atop of it!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> A 'right click' on the Icon should provide you with options.
>>> 
>>> Good luck!
>>> 
>>> PS. Can you post an image of what your "Applications App" looks like?
>>>      I don't appear to have one in my macOS Ventura 13.7.8
>> 
>> https://share.icloud.com/photos/0634f--fWm6Mmc6eA-1DFy87g
>> 
>> The screenshot.It shows the Documents folder and the Downloads folder icons in
>> their usual guise, the obscenely altered Applications folder, a parked Arc
>> page and the Bin.
>> 
>> BTW I am running Sequoia 15.6.1 (24G90)
> [snip]
> 
> Thank you so very much for sharing that image, John. Much appreciated. 🙂
> 
> You may enjoy reviewing this conversation I have subsequently enjoyed
> with ChatGPT:-
> 
> https://chatgpt.com/share/68aac8e9-1be8-8013-bd11-69f9e41fa109
> 
> Perhaps you'd like to comment further?

Andy H has found the correct answer - the Dock icon had the option Stack.
Change it to Folder and all is well.

My thanks to all who helped, and to Andy H in particular for cracking it.

Old John.
-- 
God made the integers. All else is the work of man.

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#181716

FromAlan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
Date2025-08-24 11:36 +0000
Message-ID<108etg3$2p4kj$1@notronniebarker.dont-email.me>
In reply to#181714
On 2025-08-24, John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Andy H has found the correct answer - the Dock icon had the option Stack.
> Change it to Folder and all is well.
>
> My thanks to all who helped, and to Andy H in particular for cracking it.

You may be interested to know that in the next macOS 26 (aka Tahoe), Launchpad
has been replaced by an application called Apps. I'm running Tahoe beta and 
this new application does seem a better way of launching apps than Launchpad. 
Whether it's better than having the applications folder as a dock item remains 
to be seen. I'm keeping the latter in the dock for now.

<https://www.macworld.com/article/2830963/macos-tahoe-apps-replaces-launchpad.html>

-- 
Cheers, Alan

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#181720

FromMark <captain.black@gmail.com>
Date2025-08-24 20:00 +0000
Message-ID<fscksBRHyTggdWtZlWBCRvQtXtGYfUYd@news.usenet.farm>
In reply to#181716
On 24 Aug 2025 at 12:36:35 PM GMT+1, "Alan B"
<alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

> On 2025-08-24, John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Andy H has found the correct answer - the Dock icon had the option Stack.
>> Change it to Folder and all is well.
>> 
>> My thanks to all who helped, and to Andy H in particular for cracking it.
> 
> You may be interested to know that in the next macOS 26 (aka Tahoe), Launchpad
> has been replaced by an application called Apps. I'm running Tahoe beta and
> this new application does seem a better way of launching apps than Launchpad.
> Whether it's better than having the applications folder as a dock item remains
> to be seen. I'm keeping the latter in the dock for now.
> 
> <https://www.macworld.com/article/2830963/macos-tahoe-apps-replaces-launchpad.html>

One can still use Spotlight to launch apps in Tahoe?

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#181721

FromAlan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
Date2025-08-24 20:14 +0000
Message-ID<108frqf$319ag$1@notronniebarker.dont-email.me>
In reply to#181720
On 2025-08-24, Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2025 at 12:36:35 PM GMT+1, "Alan B"
><alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2025-08-24, John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> Andy H has found the correct answer - the Dock icon had the option Stack.
>>> Change it to Folder and all is well.
>>> 
>>> My thanks to all who helped, and to Andy H in particular for cracking it.
>> 
>> You may be interested to know that in the next macOS 26 (aka Tahoe), Launchpad
>> has been replaced by an application called Apps. I'm running Tahoe beta and
>> this new application does seem a better way of launching apps than Launchpad.
>> Whether it's better than having the applications folder as a dock item remains
>> to be seen. I'm keeping the latter in the dock for now.
>> 
>> <https://www.macworld.com/article/2830963/macos-tahoe-apps-replaces-launchpad.html>
>
> One can still use Spotlight to launch apps in Tahoe?

Yes, just done it :)

-- 
Cheers, Alan

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#181722

FromMark <captain.black@gmail.com>
Date2025-08-24 20:26 +0000
Message-ID<kMjDbeWNiCNBsOYcwoVYuaeaFaBzHTAH@news.usenet.farm>
In reply to#181721
On 24 Aug 2025 at 9:14:07 PM GMT+1, "Alan B"
<alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

> On 2025-08-24, Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 24 Aug 2025 at 12:36:35 PM GMT+1, "Alan B"
>> <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2025-08-24, John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Andy H has found the correct answer - the Dock icon had the option Stack.
>>>> Change it to Folder and all is well.
>>>> 
>>>> My thanks to all who helped, and to Andy H in particular for cracking it.
>>> 
>>> You may be interested to know that in the next macOS 26 (aka Tahoe), Launchpad
>>> has been replaced by an application called Apps. I'm running Tahoe beta and
>>> this new application does seem a better way of launching apps than Launchpad.
>>> Whether it's better than having the applications folder as a dock item remains
>>> to be seen. I'm keeping the latter in the dock for now.
>>> 
>>> <https://www.macworld.com/article/2830963/macos-tahoe-apps-replaces-launchpad.html>
>> 
>> One can still use Spotlight to launch apps in Tahoe?
> 
> Yes, just done it :)

Phew! :)

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#181726

FromAlan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
Date2025-08-25 07:54 +0000
Message-ID<108h4rc$39s69$1@notronniebarker.dont-email.me>
In reply to#181722
On 2025-08-24, Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2025 at 9:14:07 PM GMT+1, "Alan B"
><alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2025-08-24, Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 24 Aug 2025 at 12:36:35 PM GMT+1, "Alan B"
>>> <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2025-08-24, John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Andy H has found the correct answer - the Dock icon had the option Stack.
>>>>> Change it to Folder and all is well.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My thanks to all who helped, and to Andy H in particular for cracking it.
>>>> 
>>>> You may be interested to know that in the next macOS 26 (aka Tahoe), Launchpad
>>>> has been replaced by an application called Apps. I'm running Tahoe beta and
>>>> this new application does seem a better way of launching apps than Launchpad.
>>>> Whether it's better than having the applications folder as a dock item remains
>>>> to be seen. I'm keeping the latter in the dock for now.
>>>> 
>>>> <https://www.macworld.com/article/2830963/macos-tahoe-apps-replaces-launchpad.html>
>>> 
>>> One can still use Spotlight to launch apps in Tahoe?
>> 
>> Yes, just done it :)
>
> Phew! :)

Do you know owt about Alfred? It seems quite a powerful tool for searches, launching
apps etc.

<https://www.alfredapp.com>

-- 
Cheers, Alan

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#181729

FromMark <captain.black@gmail.com>
Date2025-08-25 13:14 +0000
Message-ID<dgKdfZsylodNxcdlLLzVcCveaVNpvsqw@news.usenet.farm>
In reply to#181726
On 25 Aug 2025 at 8:54:20 AM GMT+1, "Alan B"
<alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

> On 2025-08-24, Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 24 Aug 2025 at 9:14:07 PM GMT+1, "Alan B"
>> <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2025-08-24, Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 24 Aug 2025 at 12:36:35 PM GMT+1, "Alan B"
>>>> <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2025-08-24, John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Andy H has found the correct answer - the Dock icon had the option Stack.
>>>>>> Change it to Folder and all is well.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My thanks to all who helped, and to Andy H in particular for cracking it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You may be interested to know that in the next macOS 26 (aka Tahoe), Launchpad
>>>>> has been replaced by an application called Apps. I'm running Tahoe beta and
>>>>> this new application does seem a better way of launching apps than Launchpad.
>>>>> Whether it's better than having the applications folder as a dock item remains
>>>>> to be seen. I'm keeping the latter in the dock for now.
>>>>> 
>>>>> <https://www.macworld.com/article/2830963/macos-tahoe-apps-replaces-launchpad.html>
>>>> 
>>>> One can still use Spotlight to launch apps in Tahoe?
>>> 
>>> Yes, just done it :)
>> 
>> Phew! :)
> 
> Do you know owt about Alfred? It seems quite a powerful tool for searches,
> launching
> apps etc.
> 
> <https://www.alfredapp.com>

Oh yes, I've known about alfred for many years, although I'm not sure I've
ever tried it (I may have, but can't remember off-hand).

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#181717

From"David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk>
Date2025-08-24 13:55 +0100
Message-ID<mh0gevFtoedU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#181714
On 24/08/2025 09:36, John Hill wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2025 at 09:14:53 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 24/08/2025 08:47, John Hill wrote:
>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 18:16:15 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 23/08/2025 17:41, John Hill wrote:
>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 11:56:46 BST, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 09:57:55 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The Applications icon in my Dock has been overlaid by a white square
>>>>>>>>> containing a red octagon bearing a white hand.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It looks like some kind of warning. But what does it signify?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What action do I need to take to clear it? I'd like it gone - it is unsightly,
>>>>>>>>> apart from anything else.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is it showing the first app icon from your /Applications folder?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What you're describing looks like the AdBlock for Safari icon as shown
>>>>>>> in the App Store. Have you recently installed it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Further investigation ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If it is that, there is a setting to toggle 'Show Dock Icon' on or off.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have asked AdBlock Support for help.
>>>>
>>>> Hello again, Very Old John!  🙂
>>>>
>>>> As you know, I'm not as clever as many of the other's reading here, but
>>>> I'd like to make a suggestion.
>>>>
>>>> Simply remove the Applications Icon from the Dock, then you'll not be
>>>> ably to see the ugly icon currently sitting atop of it!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A 'right click' on the Icon should provide you with options.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck!
>>>>
>>>> PS. Can you post an image of what your "Applications App" looks like?
>>>>       I don't appear to have one in my macOS Ventura 13.7.8
>>>
>>> https://share.icloud.com/photos/0634f--fWm6Mmc6eA-1DFy87g
>>>
>>> The screenshot.It shows the Documents folder and the Downloads folder icons in
>>> their usual guise, the obscenely altered Applications folder, a parked Arc
>>> page and the Bin.
>>>
>>> BTW I am running Sequoia 15.6.1 (24G90)
>> [snip]
>>
>> Thank you so very much for sharing that image, John. Much appreciated. 🙂
>>
>> You may enjoy reviewing this conversation I have subsequently enjoyed
>> with ChatGPT:-
>>
>> 
>>
>> Perhaps you'd like to comment further?
> 
> Andy H has found the correct answer - the Dock icon had the option Stack.
> Change it to Folder and all is well.
> 
> My thanks to all who helped, and to Andy H in particular for cracking it.

That's really good to hear, John! :-)

Did you bother to read my conversation at this link?

https://chatgpt.com/share/68aac8e9-1be8-8013-bd11-69f9e41fa109

Since using macOS (2009) I have /never/ had a FOLDER showing on my dock!
(unless right of the line!)

-- 
David

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#181719

FromJohn Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk>
Date2025-08-24 16:21 +0000
Message-ID<108fe74$2tlu4$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#181717
On 24 Aug 2025 at 13:55:59 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> On 24/08/2025 09:36, John Hill wrote:
>> On 24 Aug 2025 at 09:14:53 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 24/08/2025 08:47, John Hill wrote:
>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 18:16:15 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 23/08/2025 17:41, John Hill wrote:
>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 11:56:46 BST, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 09:57:55 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> The Applications icon in my Dock has been overlaid by a white square
>>>>>>>>>> containing a red octagon bearing a white hand.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> It looks like some kind of warning. But what does it signify?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> What action do I need to take to clear it? I'd like it gone - it is unsightly,
>>>>>>>>>> apart from anything else.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Is it showing the first app icon from your /Applications folder?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> What you're describing looks like the AdBlock for Safari icon as shown
>>>>>>>> in the App Store. Have you recently installed it?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Further investigation ...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If it is that, there is a setting to toggle 'Show Dock Icon' on or off.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have asked AdBlock Support for help.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello again, Very Old John!  🙂
>>>>> 
>>>>> As you know, I'm not as clever as many of the other's reading here, but
>>>>> I'd like to make a suggestion.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Simply remove the Applications Icon from the Dock, then you'll not be
>>>>> ably to see the ugly icon currently sitting atop of it!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> A 'right click' on the Icon should provide you with options.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Good luck!
>>>>> 
>>>>> PS. Can you post an image of what your "Applications App" looks like?
>>>>>       I don't appear to have one in my macOS Ventura 13.7.8
>>>> 
>>>> https://share.icloud.com/photos/0634f--fWm6Mmc6eA-1DFy87g
>>>> 
>>>> The screenshot.It shows the Documents folder and the Downloads folder icons in
>>>> their usual guise, the obscenely altered Applications folder, a parked Arc
>>>> page and the Bin.
>>>> 
>>>> BTW I am running Sequoia 15.6.1 (24G90)
>>> [snip]
>>> 
>>> Thank you so very much for sharing that image, John. Much appreciated. 🙂
>>> 
>>> You may enjoy reviewing this conversation I have subsequently enjoyed
>>> with ChatGPT:-
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Perhaps you'd like to comment further?
>> 
>> Andy H has found the correct answer - the Dock icon had the option Stack.
>> Change it to Folder and all is well.
>> 
>> My thanks to all who helped, and to Andy H in particular for cracking it.
> 
> That's really good to hear, John! :-)
> 
> Did you bother to read my conversation at this link?
> 
> https://chatgpt.com/share/68aac8e9-1be8-8013-bd11-69f9e41fa109
> 
> Since using macOS (2009) I have /never/ had a FOLDER showing on my dock!
> (unless right of the line!)

These are all right of the line. Nothing unusual there. It just didn't show in
the screenshot.

Old John.
-- 
Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est

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#181724

From"David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk>
Date2025-08-25 08:19 +0100
Message-ID<mh2h3qF9hkkU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#181719
On 24/08/2025 17:21, John Hill wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2025 at 13:55:59 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 24/08/2025 09:36, John Hill wrote:
>>> On 24 Aug 2025 at 09:14:53 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 24/08/2025 08:47, John Hill wrote:
>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 18:16:15 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 23/08/2025 17:41, John Hill wrote:
>>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 11:56:46 BST, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 09:57:55 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The Applications icon in my Dock has been overlaid by a white square
>>>>>>>>>>> containing a red octagon bearing a white hand.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It looks like some kind of warning. But what does it signify?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> What action do I need to take to clear it? I'd like it gone - it is unsightly,
>>>>>>>>>>> apart from anything else.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Is it showing the first app icon from your /Applications folder?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What you're describing looks like the AdBlock for Safari icon as shown
>>>>>>>>> in the App Store. Have you recently installed it?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Further investigation ...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If it is that, there is a setting to toggle 'Show Dock Icon' on or off.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have asked AdBlock Support for help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello again, Very Old John!  🙂
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As you know, I'm not as clever as many of the other's reading here, but
>>>>>> I'd like to make a suggestion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Simply remove the Applications Icon from the Dock, then you'll not be
>>>>>> ably to see the ugly icon currently sitting atop of it!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A 'right click' on the Icon should provide you with options.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good luck!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS. Can you post an image of what your "Applications App" looks like?
>>>>>>        I don't appear to have one in my macOS Ventura 13.7.8
>>>>>
>>>>> https://share.icloud.com/photos/0634f--fWm6Mmc6eA-1DFy87g
>>>>>
>>>>> The screenshot.It shows the Documents folder and the Downloads folder icons in
>>>>> their usual guise, the obscenely altered Applications folder, a parked Arc
>>>>> page and the Bin.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW I am running Sequoia 15.6.1 (24G90)
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> Thank you so very much for sharing that image, John. Much appreciated. 🙂
>>>>
>>>> You may enjoy reviewing this conversation I have subsequently enjoyed
>>>> with ChatGPT:-
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps you'd like to comment further?
>>>
>>> Andy H has found the correct answer - the Dock icon had the option Stack.
>>> Change it to Folder and all is well.
>>>
>>> My thanks to all who helped, and to Andy H in particular for cracking it.
>>
>> That's really good to hear, John! :-)
>>
>> Did you bother to read my conversation at this link?
>>
>> https://chatgpt.com/share/68aac8e9-1be8-8013-bd11-69f9e41fa109
>>
>> Since using macOS (2009) I have /never/ had a FOLDER showing on my dock!
>> (unless right of the line!)
> 
> These are all right of the line. Nothing unusual there. It just didn't show in
> the screenshot.

Of course! 🙂  How dopey of me not to realise!

My sincere thanks for explaining, John.

-- 
Enjoy your day,
David

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